<p><LINK href="notes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <SPAN class="panel-title"> Mars Wants Our Genitals -- FogCon 2012</span> <span class="dateline">30.03.2012 21.30h</span></p>
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Gender
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Sexuality
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Aliens
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Humanity has often been described as exogamous - if it's strange, and new, we want to have sex with it. This was simple enough when it was the people from the group down the river who spoke strangely - but what will it mean as we move out into the universe? Writers have already gone there - James Tiptree Jr.'s &quot;And I Awoke And Found Me Here By The Cold Hill's Side&quot;, for example. How will we relate to a universe whose expectations of sex (if they exist at all) may be very, very different from ours?
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<li>Steven Schwartz</li>
<li>Mary Anne Muhawaj</li>
<li>David Levine</li>
<li>John Marie Sine
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<h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521016576">Sturgeon, Ted. &quot;The Sex Opposite&quot;</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375703756">Another publication of it</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1556433506">Sturgeon, Ted. &quot;The World Well Lost&quot;</a> Collection includes the story.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1568652518">Tiptree, James. &quot;Houston, Houston, Do You Read Me?&quot;</a> Collection includs story</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Boys-Vol-Name-Game/dp/1933305738/">Ennis, Garth. &quot;The Boys&quot;</a> Series of novels</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/ALIEN-SEX-Roadside-Darling-Daughters/dp/B001IS7ICG/">Willis, Connie. All My Darling Daughters</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Sisters-Apocalypse-Black-Books/dp/0932511953">Reed, Kit. Little Sisters of the Apocalypse</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Telepaths-Safewords-Stories-Erotic-Fantasy/dp/0963397001/">Tan, Cecilia (Ed)., Telepaths Don't Need Safewords</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bradbury-Stories-Most-Celebrated-Tales/dp/0060544880/">Bradbury, Ray. Dead Man</a> A necrophiliac story ( a solid ghost ) appears in this story.
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<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
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<p>Dealing with our issues by externalizing them.</p>
<p>There's lots of gay content in Anne McCaffrey's <em>Pern</em> series.</p>
<p>There's a tension in humans, between biological exogamy and culturally strong taboos.</p>
<p>&quot;All our history is about chasing and impregnating/being impregnated by the alien.&quot;</p>
<p>The appeal of erotica is often in violation of taboo. Most human/alien sex stories put the human on the low end of power.</p>
<p>Hand-waving away language issues, and which language is used says something about the power relationship -- this can also apply in sex (power issues)</p>
<p>Ask: do aliens even have the same concepts about sex?</p>
<p>Zombies are generally <em>not</em> erotic, can be seen as a way of reintroducing a non-erotic monster into genre fiction. They're the monster for those who don't want sex mixed in.</p>
Zombie anxiety -- identicality, minlessness and lack of identity.
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